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Carrie B. Call diary
Manuscripts
Diary kept during a journey by covered wagon from Salt Lake City, UT, to Los Angeles, CA, by Carrie B. Call, who traveled with her husband Jimmie, her niece Katie and her infant son Leslie. The Calls left Salt Lake City on October 24, 1886 and reached Los Angeles December 5, 1886. While on their journey they passed through several cities and sites including Provo and Santa Clara, Utah; the Las Vegas Mormon Fort and Rancho, Nevada; and Ivanpah and Pomona, California. The diary gives a day-by-day story of their trip. She details the people, scenery and hardships her family encountered on their trek, such as, the family sharing a campsite with a man chasing a horse thief and getting lost in the desert and having their horses run off. Being from Salt Lake City, she makes several comments regarding the Mormon families she met along the travel route. One of the first things the Call family did in California was visit the beach at Santa Monica. Call made several comments regarding California's perfect climate. The diary is illustrated by hand-drawn and hand-colored sketches done by the author
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Anthony family collection
Manuscripts
The collection of 162 pieces contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities, dating from 1844 to 1945. This group of papers was assembled by Una R. Winter, Director, and Alice L. Park, Associate Director, of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. There are four large letterbooks which contain letterpress copies of approximately 1372 pages of correspondence written by Susan B. Anthony's cousin Joseph Anthony (Box 4). There is also an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony (AF 79) and a manuscript by Joseph Anthony titled "A Trip to the Bahama Islands" (AF 76). Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. There are several letters which discuss a bust of Susan B. Anthony by the artist Lorado Taft, and one letter promoting a recent volume of The History of Woman Suffrage (AF 28). Anthony family members represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony and her relatives: cousin Jessie Anthony (1856-1918) and Jessie's father, Joseph Anthony (1829-1897), and grandfather John Anthony (Susan's uncle); niece Lucy E. Anthony (1859-1944); second cousin Katherine Boyles; niece Maude Anthony Koehler (1865-1950); and nephew Frank Anthony Mosher.Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include: Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass. Note: 49 original letters [AF 18 (1-43) and AF 24 (1-6)] written by Susan B. Anthony to Jessie Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt were removed and placed in Box 5, which is restricted. Typewritten copies of these letters have been filed in Box 1 of the collection for research use.In Box 3, there are two loose-leaf binders and one envelope of typescripts of Susan B. Anthony letters from collections held in other libraries. These materials are from the Anna Dann Mason collection (47 letters), Sophia Smith collection (58 letters) and Alma Lutz collection (52 letters).
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Howard and Alice Reynolds correspondence
Manuscripts
The majority of this collection is made up of letters by Howard Reynolds to Alice Reeves Reynolds both before and after their marriage in 1903 (1894-1921), although there is half of a box of letters by Alice to Howard (1901-1911). In these letters, one can follow their courtship and marriage. Howard often talks about his business and his travels (especially throughout the American west) and Alice talks about her life as a teacher, social events, trips, health, etc. There are a several other letters by various family members and friends including Howard's father George W. Reynolds, Alice's sister Carrie Reeves Slaydon, and a fellow traveling salesman working with Howard, Karl H. Vesper. The collection also contains a few pieces of ephemera, some invoices from the Baker Underwear Company, and many empty envelopes. There are also transcripts of many of the letters, but not all.
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John B. Tapscott papers, (bulk 1861-1904)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of family correspondence, military records, genealogical materials, and other papers accumulated by John Baker Tapscott and his son and preserved by his granddaughter, Katharine Tapscott Rohrbough. The pre-Civil War portion of the collection includes letters to John Baker Tapscott from his friends and family. Beside the family news, the letters of Tapscott's female relatives discuss religious sentiment, reading, local gossip, and state and national news, including Thomas W. Gilmer's death in the explosion of U.S.S. Princeton; the Presbyterian Church in Virginia, Meriweather Jefferson Thompson (1826-1876); temperance meetings, including a temperance lecture given by John Bartholomew Gough (1817-1886), etc. Tapscott's sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gilmer Tapscott described her studies of "philosophy, botany, and astronomy" with a Miss Frary. Also included is the letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to John's father, Baker Tapscott discussing Gilmer's plan to "depart for Texas in 10 or 12 days." In his letter of January 17, 1861, Samuel Baker Tapscott gives his take on the secession crisis and the fallout from Abraham Lincoln's election. The Civil War papers, assembled in a scrapbook, contain orders, reports, communications with Engineer Bureau, and other military records, a few personal letters, passes, passports, and copies of Robert E. Lee's farewell address to the troops. Also included is an account book entitled "The Confederate States in cash account with Lieutenant John. B. Tapscott." Correspondents include Alfred L. Rives, Charles Henry Dimmock, and others. Also included are designs for the Confederate flag submitted by Tapscott in February 1862. The post-war portion of the collection includes Tapscott's correspondence with his first wife Mary Aurelia Cobb that documents their somewhat tumultuous courtship in the fall of 1865 through the summer of 1868. The letters exchanged between Tapscott and fiancée and then second wife Kate Andrews Pegram Tapscott and her father George Pegram were mostly written during Tapscott's travels to St. Louis, Missouri, New Orleans, Louisiana, Pensacola, Florida, and Waco, Texas. The papers of John Pegram Tapscott includes letters from his sisters Annie and Virginia and his friend Edwin Thomas, Jr. a Clarksville, druggist; his uncle Benjamin Rush Pegram, and Harold Pegram Fabian (1885-1975), a relative and a childhood friend. This group also includes childhood letters of John Pegram Tapscott and Katharine Tapscott Rohrbough, including letters to Santa Claus. The collection also contains a surveyor's field book kept by Tapscott from 1859 to 1860, his public lecture of the history of the crusades, 1875, his poems, contributions to various newspapers, reports on the on the transit of Venus addressed to U.S. Transit of Venus commission, 1882, and genealogical materials related to the Tapscott, Baker, Cobb, Gilmer, and Pegram families.
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